But now that we are placed in our proper position, one among countless myriads of worlds, what ground is there for the preposterous conceit which arrogates as ours all sentient existence?
Earth, air, water, all are teeming with living things suited to their environment; our globe is overflowing with life.

But the moment we pass in thought beyond our atmosphere everything is to be changed.

Neither reason nor analogy support such a supposition.

It was one of Bruno's crimes that he dared to teach that other worlds than ours were inhabited; but he was wiser than the monks who burned him.

All the Theosophists aver is that each phase of matter has living things suited to it, and that all the universe is pulsing with life.